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SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1928,

FLYINGTM DAY BY DAY.

WITH THE EXPRESS PILOT.

Fascinating Panorama From The Air.

ULTRA-MODERN THRILL.

Harry Harper, Author of "The Air Way," "The Steel Construction of Aeroplanes, etc., writes in the "Rangoon Times" ;'>

The only people who, as a rule, are permitted to tako a seat out in the cockpit beside the pilot of one of our powerful continental air expresses-replacing for a time the mechanic who moves back into the Baloon are, airway engines and Government officinis. It is const- dered a privilege to don a flying- suit and make a journey out there forward, sitting beside the who steers the great winged craft as it hurtles through the air.

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One well-known figure in avin' tion who, when he is on one of his frequent trips by air, thorough- ly enjoys leaving his armchair in the saloon and going out forward with the pilot, is Air-Vice-Marshal

SYARAT HISZEN MANN OG

Ruth Elder, the first of the American fliers, to "cash in" on her fight across the Atlantic Ocean. Miss Elder signed a con- tract with the Loew circuit for $1,000 a day for 100 daya,

NATIONS CLAIMS.

FRENCH MILITARY LEAD DISCLOSED.

AIR SUPREMACT.

London, Dec. 18,

THE CHINA MAIL,

PLANE QUERIES.

HOW FAST DOES THE PROPELLER GO?

SEAPLANES ON LAND,

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TO THE SOUTH POLE. recalled that Alllason established CHURCH NOTICES:

AN AMERICAN EXPEDITION

- BY AIR.

LAST GREAT CHALLENGE.

expect Dr-

A CHARGE OF ONE DOLLAR IS MADE FOR ALL. NOTICES

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THIS HEADING

ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL, HONG KONG.

January 22, 1928. Third Sunday After Epiphany. Holy Communion (8 a.m.). Matins (11 a.m.)

Preacher: Rev. W. R, Cannell. Evensong (6 pm)

Preacher: The Dean,

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a base at the castern end at a place he called: Framhoin after his ship, the "Fram," said Sir, Edge- worth David. "Allinson found conditions comparatively calm, the area being fairly free from violent] blizzard winds. On the other hand, nearer the great Antarctic; The latest edition of Jane'a "All

How fast does, the propeller go?

Washington, Dec. 17.

Andes, where our winter quarters The speed of propellers varies the World's Aircraft," in authorita- from 300 to 1,500 revolutions a the National Geographical Society very frequent and very violent, Commander Byrd has informed wore established, blizzards are tively describing the types of a minute. From 1100 to 1200 craft of no less than 60 countries, common speeds.

are of his plans for a light to the sible for aeroplanes

and would make it quite impos- strongly comments upon the secret

South Pole.. He says "The last If Byrd's headquarters are some- Can seaplanes land on land?

to ba used. policy of France, who has bluntly

great challenge to an aviator to refused to divulge any detalle as which can alight with equal enso

There are amphibian seaplanes explore comes from the Antarctic where near Allinson's winter quar- to the number and capabilities of on land or on

continent,"

ters, he may reasonably her machines.

water. A skilful

fairly calm weather, but, In pilot could bring down an ordinary Commander Byrd said that the der to explore the continent, the seaplane on good ground, but he personnel and equipment of his planes would have to fly over the in the Cathedral Hall after Even- would probably damage the

A Social Gathering will be held chino.

ma-expedition would be taken to its region of the

base at Great Rosa Barrier, in a would be great risk from southern to all.

Cordial welcome extended Andes, and there song. chine is going to stall?

Does a pilot know when his ma-ship especially built to withstand blizzards., It is a matter of great interest to decide where these chine has actually stalled. There It often happens that the first warning he has is when his

Antarctic Andes eventually, go.. They have been traced south to which warna the pilot when is an anti-stall gear, however,"

the Pole, and have been found to Branch of The Mother Church, his, machine is reaching its stalling

reach an altitude in some places of The First Church of Christ, Sclent- 15,000 feet. They bend away to lat, in speed by setting the controls to

Boston, Mass, USA.] the east of the Pole, and then; there is a great blank space en the Macdonnell Road, below Bowen map, from where they have been

Road Trom Station lost to sight, up to the American side of the Antarctle. The quea- tion whether they go south to the

Sunday Service 11.15 a.m. northermost part of Graham Land

Subject:"Truth.". or whether they branch away

Wednesday Evening Meeting at to 5.30 o'clock. the right of the Weddell Sea and go to Coates Land has yet to be decided.

The volume, nevertheless, gives remarkable figures which reveal that France has outstripped the world in military planes and pos of the Powers combined. sesses more machines than the rest

many dominates the air. commer- Similarly, It points, out that Ger cially.

Immediately in front of him the plot of the air express has a hand- wheel mounted on a metal column. This, when turned from side to side, actuates hinged auxiliary surfaces at the the "ailerons," or wing-tips which govern the lateral or sideway balance of the machine. A movement forward or backward of the wheel, operates the rear elevating-planes, and

the aeroplano to ascend or descend. Many instruments and dials en- gage the attention of the airmen on his dashboard. There are tem-dozen perature and

pressure gauges which must be watched in connec-

causes

tion with the water and all-cooling of the engines. Then there is the tell-tale needle of the speedometer. This, one should inention, does not indicate the machine's rate of pro- press across the face of the earth. Air speed and land speed are dif ferent things. This instrument is merely an indicator of air apted. The rudder of his machine the pilot moves by the action of a foot- bar..

Air Speed and Land Speed. What it tells the pilot is the speed at which his craft is moving in relation to the body of air in which it is immersed.

correct the error.

ma-

The Lufthansa Company owne 140 air liners, which link up the whole of Central Europe from the Baltic to the Mediterranean. mere 20 linera operating on half-a-ever upset?

Britain compares badly, with a Is the balance of an aeroplane! routes. Nevertheless, the The balance of an aeroplane can British Military machines, though easily be upset by the wind, or by Britain possess the fastest types, pilot. fewer are wonderfully efficient. carelessness or lack of skill by the together with an all-round high standard of performances,

NEW FIGHTER.

A REMARKABLE CLIMBER

carry at least four machine guns. The machine will be able to climb 25,000 feet in ten minutes, and will have a speed of 200 miles per hour.

London, Dec. 14. The "Daily News" states that, in accordance

with

the data obtained from the recent Royal Assume, for example, that the

Air Force manauvres, the aero craft flying into

plane designers are evolving a u headwind.defending fighter," If so, and even If the Indientor

which will stands at 100 miles-an-hour, the actual speed of the machine over the surface of the earth may, owing to the retarding effect of the wind, be appreciably less than this. Oa the other hand, if there is a strong following wind, the rate of travel over the earth may be consider- ably greater than the reading the air-speed Indicator, shows. As an example one may take the case, not long ago, of an air express which, thanks to an aiding upper wind blowing at gale strength, flew from London to Cologne at a speed over the ground of just on 160 miles an hour, although its air-speed indica- for stood all the time at about 100 miles-an-linur.

Other instruments the pilot finds invaluable are inclinometers and turn-indicators. These come to his aid when he is navigating his machine in cloud or fog. In such conditions, when he may be pre- vented for a time from seeing any Sir Sefton Brancker, Director of horizon-line, he glances at these in- Civil Aviation; while it may be. re-genious instrumenta and is inform called that during the general ed immediately of the inclination strike, when the Prince of Wales of his machine in relation to the New from Paris to London by Im- surface of the earth below. perial Airways, he too made his way through the door in the saloon which communicates with the cock pit, and sat for some time with the pilot, watching with interest, how he controlled the big plane on its flight.

The Red Lamp.

Another Instrument to be noted is the airway equivalent of the emergency stop-the-train signal on railways. A passenger in the saloon of the air express who may. wish to communicate with the pilot presses a button which lights a red A mémorable thrill it is, to the lamp in the cockpit.

Seeing this few permitted to enjoy it, to be signal, the pilot at once sends his seated beside the pilot of one of engineer-assistant through the com- the big Handley-Page or "Argosy"municating door into the saloon to expresses. Weighing from 6 to 8 Inquire what is the matter.

We're Off.

tons, according to its type, the Not long ago there was a strange great multi-engined aeroplane instance of the use

of this red- stands waiting to ascend from the lamp signal. A winged express London air-station. A fng is wav-lying from Paris to London was ed from the control-tower, and the nearing the French coast when the pilot moves over his throttle-lever. light appeared suddenly on Whereupon the sound of the aero-pilot's dashboard. Whereupon the engines rises from a murmur to a moshanic, hastening' through to the mighty, full-throated roar. The saloon, saw an amazing sight. Ono propellers increase their speed till of the windows was.

open and a their blades, become invisible, and passenger was apparently trying to the machine roves forward struggle through it, being held back smoothly across the 'drome on its by several other travellers, who big, well-sprung pneumatie-tyred were gripping his arms and legs. The mechanic, realising the serious Rapidly it gathers pace. Fasterness of the situation, dashed back and yet faster it rushes across the and told the Pilot what was hap ground, until the moment comes pening and the latter decided to when Its curved, wide-spread wings land at a neighbouring emergency exercise sufficient lift to bear it ground.

wheels.

What weight can an aeroplane) carry?

This depends entirely on its aizc. A small single-seater might carry! 800 pounds, including pilot andi fuel. The big. Handley Page aero- plane can carry eight tons in ad- dition to its own weight.

Can an aeroplane rise vertically? Not in relation to the air, but it can do so in relation to the ground! when facing a very strong wind. That is to say, if the wind is press- ing it backward the actual rise may if the machine.were not moving be in a straight line, as it were, as, forward at all. The new type of flying machine known as the Auto- giro, however, rises almost verti- cally.

haust?

Does an aeroplane uso up its tx-

to

waste, although occasionally some

The exhaust is usually, run of it is used to warm the carburet-1 tor, and on some passenger planes

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The christening of the "Splitdorf," the new Fokker Universal plane with which Bert: Acosta a the world's flight endurance record now held by two Germans- nd Emil Burgin will try to break Risticz and Edzard-who stayed in the air 62 hours and 29 minutes, breaking Acosta's and Chamberlin's previous record of 51 hours. Left to right, at the christening, are:-Emil Burgin, Bert Acosta, Miss Elizabeth Robinson, Washington debutante, daughter of T. Douglas Robinson, Assistant Secretary of the Navy and sponsor of the plane; William P. MacCracken, Assist- ant Secretary of Commerce in Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation.

charge of civil aviation, and F.

it is used to heat up the passenger

cabin.

Woo & UNDERWOGA,,K. V

Paris, France. The international Aeronautical Federation rocently awarded the world's altitude record to Lieut. C. C. Champlon, U. 9. Navy aviator, after the altitude flight of the French dyer, Jean Col lize, had been proved fraudulent. Llout Champion's record is 13, 727 meters-between 46,000 and 47,000 feet. Photo shows Lieutenant Cham-. plon in the ying outfit in which ho won the world's record.

the ico. Three planes will be used, with which Byrd hopes to. lay down bases 100 miles apart, to the edge of the unexplored area, and fill in the great blank spaces on the maps of the school children at a rate of 100 miles per hour."

The party will include six Esquimaux, in addition to 12 ex- perta. Commander Byrd added that he had already received an excess of 300 applications from persons young and old who desire to participate in the expedition.

"The primary object of the ex- pedition," Commander Byrd said, "is scientific, and we hope to plan'

"I may be reasonably assumed," the professor said, "that, in view of the experience of Amundsen, Byrd will select a base to the east, as far away as possible from the Andes, which themselves are the cause of the blizzards. The South Pole will, I think, be found more difficult to explore by 'plane than the North Pole, On the other hand, there should be less difficulty. in alighting than in the north. It has been definitely established that the area to be explored is all land, so that the juggod ice flocs of the northern area will not be present. Away from the actual rock forma- tions the surface is comparatively smooth and there should be little difficulty in. finding good landing places."

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST.

Reading Room at above address,

open

12 Noon.

Tuesday and Friday 10 a.m. to

Monday and Thursday 5 to 7 p.m. to attend the service and visit the The Public is cordially invited

Reading Room.

WESLEYAN METHODIST

CHURCH.

Queen's Road East, Wanchai (near Royal Naval Hospital)

Sunday, January 22, 1928, Morning Service, 10.15 o'clock. Subject:-"Forgiveness-Human

and Divine."

Afternoon 3

School.

o'clock:---Sunday

Evening Service, 6 o'clock. Subject: How to Stop Men Talking Against the Church,"

Preacher at both services Rev. J. C. Knight Anstey.

GERMAN AIR RAIDS. Sailors' & Soldiers' Home, Arsenal

TOLL OF BRITISH DEAD.

London, Dec. 14. In the House of Commons to-day the Secretary of State for the Air (Sir. Samuel Hoare) in answer to a question said that the civilians In Great Britain killed by German aircraft during the war totalled 1,117.

NEW YORK TO ROME,

NON-STOP PROJECT.

New York, Dec. 16.. In connection with the projected non-stop flight from New York to Rome, sponsored by a group of Italo-born Americans, it is nounced that the take-off will be made in the second week in January, with Cesare Sabelli, Italian war aviator, as pilot.

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the American flag at the South ALL-METAL 'PLANE. Pole, photograph geological sec- tions of the rugged, mountainous cliffs, and search the fossil re- mains in An effort to disclose depart from South America for the something of the past. We will

Antarctic."

Commander Byrd said he hoped

goodwill

Sydney, Dec. 18.

AERIAL SURVEY OF N.S.W.

Street.

Sunday: 3.00 p.m. Mr. May's Bible Class; 8.15

p.m. Service Men's Hour.

Friday Evening:-3.15 Fellowship Meeting.

HENRY MILLER, WAME. D

p.m.

Captain Frederick A. Giles, Brit ish war ace, who was recently forced back to the mainland of California after nine hours flying over the Facile Ocean, while on the first leg of his oversea Bight to Australia. Els plane was damaged. on landing, but he will make an other attempt after repairs are mado.

Sydney, Dec. 10.

kind in the Commonwealth, arrived all-metal biplane, the first of its The "Eagle Rock," an American

in Sydney by the s.a. "Port Pirie" to-day and will probably be taken to the Mascot morrow. The "Eagle Rock" is the Aerodrome to- firat of a series of 'planes to be im- ported by Air Travel, Ltd., and wit!] be piloted by Mr. Rupert King, an EDITOR CAUTIONED. instructor with the Australian Aero Club in Sydney.

PUBLICATION OF FALSE REPORT ON POLICE,

the man, who was now half out of the saloon window, and whose idea, apparently, was to get out on to

Can an aeroplane stand still? the wing of the machine. In this in relation to the air, but if going that a valuable by-product for the

An aeroplano cannot stand still, he was frustrated, and in the mean against a strong wind it. may do so expedition would be a cementing of time the aeroplane had glided in relation to the ground, the down. The man was then remov.

between the United ed from the saloon. He apologis

Can a man fly upside down? States and South America. The ed; abjectly, for what he had done, planes to ba flown a short distance American venture.

It is quite easy for some aero-expedition would be a completely explaining that he had been seized sometimes a mile or two, apaide

Risks and Difficulties, by a sudden Impulse to try the down. They generaly lose height "wing walking" which aerial stunt

while doing this. performers in

Can an aeroplane turn in its own Edgeworth David, who, it will be In the opinion of Professor Sir America were ac-length? complishing. But the airway off- cials, after a consultation, refused very quickly, and they have been pedition to the Antarctic,

Small fast aeroplates can turn Sir Ernest Shackleton on his ex aerial survey work in New South remembered, accompanied the late the new. "plane would be used for Mr. King explained to-day that to allow him to continue his known to skid round on their verti- the South Magnetic Pole was dis- and taxi work. It has yet to be journey by air.

when Wales as well as for photography, cal axis-that is to say, within Another recent example of the their own length:

Shanghai, Jan. 16. success of Com-unpacked and assembled, and it pao" ("Republican Daily News"), The editor of the "Minkuojih. was when a passenger was taken electricity?

mander Byrd's expedition will de is expected that it will be ready for which is the official organ of the use of the aerial emergency signal

Does an aeroplane make ita own pend to a great extent upon the fight by the end of this week. suddenly ill while aloft, and the ignition. If wireless, headlights,

Magnetos make the current for selection of the base.

Equipped with a 90 h.p. water-Kuomintang, made his apur- pilot landed at once in order that or electrically-heated clothing is ed in the cable message the Rose Rock" will have a cruising speed of Court, yesterday morning, charg "If by the lee barrier mention cooled Curtiss engine the "Eagle ance in the Shanghai Provisional the medical attention could be proeur-required, a dynamo is often driven or Great Ice Barrier is meant, about 85 miles per hour and

off the engine.

aed with circulating. false and Sometimes bat-which extends for about 500 miles maximum speed of over 100 miles malicious rumours, viz., that he teries are used.

to the east of the headquarters of per hour. It will accommodate published in his paper an article the late Captain Scott and of the two passengora in addition to the insulting the Shanghai Municipa! Shackleton expedition, it may he plot.

Police.

from earth to air. Whereupon the In the meantime the other pas pfot makes a slight movement of sengers re-inforced by

bis, controls, and all feeling of an mechanic, were struggling with ed. earth-contact CEASCH. Gradually

and smoothly the great machine. ascends, the earth rushing away at

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a still swifter pace below. aerodrome buildings seem to slid away beneath, and the next moment the winged express is roaring above the country on its way to the coast.

The Pilot's Duties. Far below, as seen from the cockpit, 11CB a fascinating panorama, while the air up aloft is clear as that of a mountain-top, and the needle of the speed-indica- tor now shows that the "fying train" is. moving at nearly 100 miles-an-hour. Steadily the pilot climbs and, as he does so, he operates a small winch and lets down a wire with a weight on the end of it which acts as a wirele aerial. This done, he, makes routine call to Croydon on his wireless phone to make sure that apparatus is functioning

the

properly. Then, he settles comfort ably at his controls.

Bourget, Field,; Paris A close-up of the new landing gear of successfully demonstrated here. to minimize accidents in Janding

ntractor design, which was

The main purpose of the gear. on rough and uneven ground.

SCHNEIDER CUP.

MUSSOLINI'S CHALLENGE TO GREAT BRITAIN."

London, Dec. 11. The aeronautical expert of the "Morning Post" Bays:-

"Signor Mussolini" has ordered the Bachi and Flat motor firms immediately to set to work to build aeroplanes which will wrest the Schneider Cup from Great Britain at all costs. America and Germany also intend to com pete

Meanwhile Great Britain's plans have not been decided, as the holder must defend the trophy against the utmost efforts of two, or three Governments. Yet Royal Air Force pilots have been for bidden to participate, while the

covered, the

Photo shows a rapid-fire anti-aircraft gun mounted on a mill- tary motorcycle being tested at the French military camp of Air Ministry is only too willingpoint to fire at the enemy aircraf

Satory When the cyclist is travelling or rushing to to bear a proportion of the costs

vantage: the gun le carried in the leather

of any other competitors

Mr. E T. Maitland, Prosecuting Solicitor, appeared for the Gom- missioner of Police and stated that the alleged insult was con- tained in a report published in the "Minkuojihpao" on December 12." There was a fight between robbers" and volunteers in Chapel, to the north of Chaoufoong Road, in the course of which five members of the volunteers were wounded, poe of whom subsequently died. The article alleged that the Settlement Police fired on the desperadoes and wounded the volunteers, which was totally without found- Jation. There was no firing by the Municipal police whatever. A

Mr Maitland's statement was corroborated by foreign and Chin- esq officers and accused admitted that he had published the report in error. He had since found out his mistake and had published an apology, and an admission of his

The accused wee, rautioned

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